
Professor of Linguistics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, she is principal researcher of the research group of the Autonomous University of Madrid, MIRCO (Multilingualism, Social Identities, Intercultural Relations and Communication), an interdisciplinary group made up of specialists in linguistics, social psychology, and anthropology, which bring together different cultural origins and languages, and which has carried out different competitive research on multilingualism in education and in other areas, and racism in discourse. He is a member of the scientific committee of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) and the CRITICS Foundation (Centers for Research into Text/Talk, Information, and Communication in Society).
Specialist in sociolinguistics, she focuses her research on multilingualism, from Discourse Analysis she has studied the social representations of immigrants in press, parliamentary and everyday speeches and their social repercussions, for which she was named national expert by the European Observatory against Racism and Xenophobia (EU). He has directed several research projects on the management of linguistic and cultural diversity: Racism on the top (EU), the project "Cultural and linguistic diversity: a proposal for strategies and resources for education” (CM) and "Socio-analysis pragmatic of intercultural communication: towards integration in classrooms » (R&D).
Other research in which she has participated: "Caló and criminal jargon: bases for the study of ethnic and cultural minorities in Spain", "Image of women in situations of job competitiveness", "Management models and practices: The role of women in management positions", "Assimilate or Integrate?: dilemmas faced with multilingualism in the classrooms" (Second prize for social research III Centenario Caja Madrid) and "Sociopragmatic analysis of intercultural communication in education: towards integration in classrooms. He has participated in Banquet II. Communication in Evolution, in the Conferences The evolution of language and sociability.
ACTS International Symposium (Art, Science, Technology and Society)